Category: History and Culture

I Love this Land

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack. American film producer, founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Louis B. Mayer, was born on this day in 1882 (died 1957). Happy 241st …

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Were the reviews that bad?

On this day in 1613 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned down. Built in 1599, The Globe Theatre, constructed of timber with a thatched roof and would hold an audience of up to 1500 people. During a June 29, 1613 production of a play called All is True (which might later have been renamed Henry VIII and …

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